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Iran executes man for killing Guard in 2017-18 protests

By AFP
August 06, 2020

TEHRAN: Iran on Wednesday executed a man convicted of killing a member of the Revolutionary Guards during deadly protests in 2017-18, the judiciary´s news website reported. “Mostafa Salehi, who had murdered martyr Guard Sajad Shahsanayi with a bullet during the riots of (December 2017-January 2018), was executed this morning upon the request of the victim´s family,” Mizan Online said. The report said Salehi had shot at security forces using a “hunting rifle”, killing Shahsanayi and wounding six others.